ARMM to fill all teaching positions in 1st quarter this year

Cotabato City (January 15, 2018) – The Department of Education in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (DepEd-ARMM) will fill all teaching positions in the nine schools divisions in the region in the first quarter of this year.

ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman said all the teachers’ appointment papers and deployment orders would be signed by the end of the first quarter. On Monday, January 15, Gov. Hataman signed the appointments and deployments of 75 additional teachers in Maguindanao province.

The new teachers passed a rigorous screening process before they were hired and will be deployed to various public schools in the province.

For newly hired Sahira Kalipapa the distance between her home and her school assignment may be challenging, but she is more excited to help her students. A 30-year-old resident of Datu Paglas North, she will be deployed to Darampua Elementary School in Sultan sa Barongis, an hour away from her place.

Applicants for teaching positions in the ARMM have to go through the Assessment and Competency Examination for Teachers in ARMM that includes a panel interview and a teaching demonstration to evaluate their aptitude and proficiency for teaching. The process is meant to promote quality education in the region.

Gov. Hataman said it helps guarantee that only qualified teachers will be hired. On January 4 this year, the appointment papers and deployment orders of the 192 public school teachers in Sulu were signed by the governor.

To date, the ARMM has 25,000 teaching and non-teaching personnel. The region is composed of nine schools divisions that include the divisions of Maguindanao I and II, Marawi City, Lanao del Sur I and II, Lamitan City, Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi.

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